Governor Kathy Hochul and Queens electeds break ground on Jamaica Hospital’s new Emergency Department on Friday, June 16.
Darren McGee/ Office of Governor Kathy Hochul
Governor Kathy Hochul joined Jamaica Hospital officials and local electeds on Friday, June 16, for a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the expansion of the hospital’s new Emergency Department that will improve access to quality emergency care in southeast Queens and neighboring communities.
About 500 attendees were gathered outside in the Physicians Parking Lot, at 89-6 135th St., which will become the site of the new emergency room.
This is the first major expansion of the hospital’s emergency department to occur in over three decades.The project is funded by a $150 million budget allocation from Hochul. The governor’s investment in healthcare, which is the largest in state history, will provide critical resources needed to help hospitals better serve their communities.
“With this new beginning, we say that this community matters, this hospital matters, and we’re going to continue working together with this $150 million investment in the future of the health of this community. And as a result, more lives will be saved. We’ll enhance our psychiatric services because my God, people are going through so much right now,” Hochul said. “All the work that was being done to save lives from overdoses from fentanyl and opioids. We’re doing that right here in real-time. We have so much more to do, but this community deserves the finest institution, the finest facilities and the finest opportunity to get the best outcomes in life.”
Jamaica Hospital has been part of the Queens community since 1891. Today, the hospital cares for a culturally diverse population of nearly 800,000 people, and is the busiest level 1 trauma center in New York City, the only Joint Commission accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center in Queens, and a Primary Heart Attack Center providing…
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